How Amazon's EC2 Service Was Born
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How Amazon's EC2 Service Was Born
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Re: How Amazon's EC2 Service Was Born
#2I enjoyed the story thanks for sharing, a couple things I didnt get is why the author "was trying to avoid this.." and why "after some exchanges its best to share"
- I bet he feels some ownership, over the product.
- The 2nd option is this is a resume` play, but probably not likely.
either way great story; although short - good luck with your other endeavors
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#3EC2 has been in operation for a few years now, and the price levels from the launch remain unchanged, despite the fact that their largest expenses are subject to Moore's law.
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#4EC2 has been in operation for a few years now, and the price levels from the launch remain unchanged, despite the fact that their largest expenses are subject to Moore's law.
They have also added:
- Elastic Block Storage
- An SLA
- Windows
- Static (Elastic) IPs
- New datacenters
- Geographic targeting (Regions)
without raising the price.
Re: How Amazon's EC2 Service Was Born
#5I enjoyed the story thanks for sharing, a couple things I didnt get is why the author "was trying to avoid this.." and why "after some exchanges its best to share" - I bet he feels some ownership, over the product. - The 2nd option is this is a resume` play, but probably not likely. either way great story; although short - good luck with your other endeavors
After a project succeeds in a large company, people who were tangentially involved come out of the woodwork to claim credit. There is a natural human urge to debunk these claims, but often this just makes things worse if the credit-takers are politically astute.
Re: How Amazon's EC2 Service Was Born
#6EC2 has been in operation for a few years now, and the price levels from the launch remain unchanged, despite the fact that their largest expenses are subject to Moore's law.
If they can keep customers at their current price level, then this just sounds like good economics to me.
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#7EC2 has been in operation for a few years now, and the price levels from the launch remain unchanged, despite the fact that their largest expenses are subject to Moore's law.
Their largest expense could be bandwidth.
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#8EC2 has been in operation for a few years now, and the price levels from the launch remain unchanged, despite the fact that their largest expenses are subject to Moore's law.
Their largest expense could be bandwidth.
EC2 charges separately for compute, storage, and bandwidth. IIRC they did reduce bandwidth prices, but compute prices have been the same for years.
Re: How Amazon's EC2 Service Was Born
#9EC2 has been in operation for a few years now, and the price levels from the launch remain unchanged, despite the fact that their largest expenses are subject to Moore's law.
One of my friends who works there said their largest cost is salary.
Can you explain how salary is subject to Moore's law?
Re: How Amazon's EC2 Service Was Born
#10Three small things that demonstrates how Bezos is an unique leader:
1) "we presented the paper to bezos" -- Wow, engineers have direct access to the CEO.
2) "we presented the paper to bezos (he doesn't do slides)" -- Wow, a CEO that actually has some attention span
3) "we presented the paper to bezos (he doesn't do slides), he liked a lot of it" -- Wow, a CEO who actually understands technology